Senior Software Product Manager

## Company Description INFICON is a leading provider of innovative instrumentation, critical sensor technologies, and Smart Manufacturing/Industry 4.0 software solutions that enhance productivity and quality of tools, processes, and complete factories. These analysis, measurement and control products are essential for gas leak detection in air conditioning/refrigeration and automotive manufacturing. They are vital to equipment manufacturers and end-users in the complex fabrication of semiconductors and thin film coatings for optics, flat panel displays, solar cells and industrial vacuum coating applications. Other users of our vacuum-based processes include the life sciences, research, aerospace, packaging, heat treatment, laser cutting and many other industrial processes. We also leverage our expertise in vacuum technology to provide unique, toxic chemical analysis products for emergency response, security, and environmental health and safety. ## Job Description We are hiring a Senior Software Product Manager to lead the next chapter of growth for our semiconductor software portfolio, with a primary focus on Fault Detection and Classification (FDC). This is a high-impact role for an AI-first product leader who thrives at the intersection of advanced manufacturing, sensor hardware, and modern B2B software. You will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for innovative solutions that solve real, costly problems for our customers on the fab floor — and you will partner closely with our hardware and sensor teams to deliver experiences that no software-only competitor can match. You bring senior-level product judgment, an energetic and positive mindset, and a relentless focus on customer outcomes. You operate fluently in Agile delivery, ground your thinking in Design Thinking and Lean Startup principles, and treat AI not as a feature but as a foundational capability that reshapes how products are built and how customers extract value. **Job Description** Key Responsibilities Product Strategy & Roadmap - Own the vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap for one or more software products in the semiconductor FDC space. - Drive growth of existing products through innovative, differentiated capabilities — particularly those enabled by AI and machine learning. - Define and track product KPIs tied to customer outcomes (yield, uptime, time-to-detection, time-to-root-cause) and business outcomes (ARR, expansion, retention). Customer Discovery & Problem Framing - Spend significant time with process engineers, equipment engineers, integration engineers, and fab IT to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs. - Apply Design Thinking to frame problems from the customer's perspective before jumping to solutions. - Use Lean Startup methods — hypotheses, MVPs, and validated learning — to de-risk bets and accelerate the path from idea to customer value. AI-First Product Development - Champion an AI-first approach: identify where AI/ML meaningfully improves detection, classification, prediction, and decision support over traditional rule-based methods. - Partner with data science and engineering to scope ML use cases, define data requirements, and design for explainability, trust, and operator adoption in a manufacturing setting. - Make pragmatic build/buy/partner decisions across the AI stack. Sensor & Hardware Integration - Work directly with sensor hardware and instrumentation teams to ensure software products fully leverage upstream signal quality, sampling, and metadata. - Influence sensor product roadmaps where software-side requirements (data fidelity, latency, edge processing, protocols) unlock meaningful customer value. - Translate hardware capabilities into compelling software value propositions for fab customers. Agile Delivery & Execution - Operate as the product owner within Agile teams — maintaining a prioritized, outcome-oriented backlog and clear acceptance criteria. - Partner with engineering, UX, QA, an…